The seventh volume of this invaluable series focuses an applications — from Ising models to the formation of small clusters and phase ordering in fluids, to the structure of concrete, to the growth of cities built from it, to the traffic jams and the biology of life in the cities, and to the marketing of products to consumers. Thus the interdisciplinary research potential of computational physics is particularly well documented.

Contents:

• The Simulation of the Ising Model on the Creutz Cellular Automaton (N Aktekin)
• Lennard–Jones Clusters and the Multiple-Minima Problem (L T Wille)
• Phase Ordering in Fluids (J M Yeomans)
• Computer Simulation and Percolation Theory Applied to Concrete (E J Garboczi & D P Bentz)
• Computer Simulations in Urban Geography (L Benguigui)
• Large-Scale Traffic Simulations for Transportation Planning (K Nagel et al.)
• Biological Evolution Through Mutation, Selection, and Drift: An Introductory Review (E Baake & W Gabriel)
• An Evolutionary Model for Simple Ecosystems (F Bagnoli & M Bezzi)
• Microscopic Simulation of Reaction–Diffusion Processes and Applications Population Biology and Product Marketing (E Bettelheim & B Lehmann)